As we finish the year 2017 we can see continued progress in all areas of the culture of peace.
Category Archives: Newsletters
CPNN (Culture of Peace News Network) bulletin of December 1, 2017
STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
On November 25, 1960, the Mirabal sisters – three of four Dominican political dissident sisters – were murdered by order of Dominican dictator (1930-1961) Leonidas Trujillo, and since 1999, the United Nations General Assembly, designated the date as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in their honor. Is it our imagination or was the day not marked this year by actions that were stronger and more widespread than ever before?
CPNN (Culture of Peace News Network) bulletin of November 1, 2017
CAN WE ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS ?
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), one of the civil society coalitions that supported the development of the United Nations Treaty to ban nuclear weapons. To quote the Nobel Committee, “Nuclear weapons pose a constant threat to humanity and all life on earth. Through binding international agreements, the international community has previously adopted prohibitions against land mines, cluster munitions and biological and chemical weapons. Nuclear weapons are even more destructive, but have not yet been made the object of a similar international legal prohibition.”
Press release of the Mandela Institute on the International Conference on “The Challenges of the Opposition in Africa” of November 4, 2017 in Paris
International conference on “the stakes of the opposition in Africa”
Saturday, November 4, 2017 in Paris
The Mandela Institute is organizing an International Conference on “The Challenges of the Opposition in Africa”, on November 4, 2017 in Paris. Its aim is to reflect, with political actors and civil society, on a peaceful democratic governance approach in order to avoid post-electoral conflicts that are very damaging to Africa’s development. It is a constructive dialogue between the Power, the Opposition and the Civil Society on the consolidation of democratic institutions and the construction of a just society.